Best was devoured, his consciousness erased, leaving him quietly within the Life Sphere.
This was not the first time Lan Mu had obtained a Contractor transformation.
Viktor had once been a Contractor too, yet now he was part of Lan Mu's transformation information. There was nothing unusual about it.
It was precisely because of this that Lan Mu understood how terrifying the Life Sphere was. Even 001 could not affect information plundered by the Life Sphere. The contract vanished the instant it was plundered.
If the Life Sphere had not been so overbearing, able to hold firm at critical moments, Lan Mu would never have made it this far. He would likely have collapsed into despair long ago.
Half of his confidence came from himself, and the other half came from the Life Sphere.
"I don't need the demonic nature. Stack all the other abilities onto me."
"Kaleidoscope Power... once I discard the demonic nature, I've finally obtained the ability to copy information..."
Of the four algorithms—alteration, transfer, stacking, and copying—only alteration and transfer had theoretically been comprehended by Lan Mu himself. He had relied on the Life Sphere to take shortcuts with stacking and copying.
But Root Algorithms worked this way. There was no step-by-step cultivation—or rather, this was not cultivation at all. If you knew, you knew. If you did not, you did not.
Once one crossed the threshold and grasped the key algorithms, all the remaining details came easily.
Just as now, Lan Mu stacked Best's copying ability and True Sight of Information onto the Unified Body, effortlessly gaining these two Defy Heaven abilities.
There was no obstacle at all. It was as simple as moving something from one box into another.
It was like when Lan Mu had asked the Main God how it revived Gu